August 2011

NOTE: This post was originally posted on August 25th 2010. However, we still to this day have readers who want to master professional photo retouching. This tutorial has helped a lot of people since it was first pubilshed, so we hope that whether this is your first time reading it, or you’re using it as a refresher, it’s helpful for you.

Professional Retouching Tutorial: Dodge and Burn (Part 2)

If you’ve completed the Professional Retouching – Healing tutorial with your chosen image, you’re ready to jump into the next step in your professional workflow, Dodging and Burning. This is an advanced retouching tutorial, so stick with it and keep practicing!

It’s kinda crazy to think, but our little internet startup, Envato, has been on the air now for five years. We started back in 2006 as four very enthusiastic and totally green entrepreneurs with a shoestring budget and a love of the web. Fast forward five years and while we’re hopefully a little less green, we’re still incredibly passionate about Education, Marketplaces and the web! It’s been an amazing time and we’d like to share a look inside our Melbourne HQ offices, some stats about Envato and a big thank you to the community.

Going to school in Greece, being “a disgusting and funny guy”, having speakers you really like, and watching anime. This week we meet Danaos Christopoulos (DanaosC) from VideoHive.

Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?

Hello, my name is Danaos Christopoulos, and I am a 16-year-old Motion Graphic Design student living in Rhodes, Greece, and I am currently self-learning.

I do accept freelance jobs when I have the chance, but the main source of income is from the Envato marketplaces. As a high school student, I am not able to work in some company or anything, so Envato is my best and only choice.

NOTE: This post was originally posted on August 25th 2010. However, we still to this day have readers who want to master professional photo retouching. This tutorial has helped a lot of people since it was first pubilshed, so we hope that whether this is your first time reading it, or you’re using it as a refresher, it’s helpful for you.

Professional Retouching Tutorial: Healing (Part 1)

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on professional retouching. Ever wondered how commercial and fashion photographs have that beautifully flawless look?

Final Image

This two part tutorial will work towards creating this professionally retouched result:

Final Image

Here is the final image that we’ll be creating!

Step 1

Open up an image of a person, try to select a photo of a head and torso only. My photo was black and white to begin with (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/462639), but if yours isn’t then go to image>adjustments>desaturate.

Step 2

Now create a new layer called ‘clothes and accessories’. Use your lasso tool to select the man’s waistcoat, tie and glasses, and then fill these areas with black. I chose to fill in the glasses totally with black to create sunglasses.

The Ultimate Collection of Technology Themed Vector Files

Vector sets are always great for enhancing your designs and saving you a lot of work producing original illustrations. However, it can be difficult to find quality vector files. Thankfully, we’ve compiled over 30 awesome vector designs that feature technology themed designs, such as laptops, pcs, iphones, cables, chargers, speakers and more! Most of these items are totally free, with the most expensive only costing a few dollars. We hope you enjoy them!

If you haven’t heard already, this week marks Envato‘s fifth birthday! We celebrated the occasion last week with a 70% commission rate for marketplace authors, and today have announced an exciting birthday bundle. For our wonderful Tuts+ readers, we have prepared a fantastic pack of resources for you to use in your next event or party. Read on to find out how to download them free!

It’s Envato’s 5th birthday and we’re ready to celebrate! With another year comes another Bundle, and this year’s Bundle is bigger and better than ever with over $500 ($507 in fact) worth of awesome files all for only $20!

Documentation

Every Project File on VideoHive must include documentation to make the customization process as simple as possible for the purchaser. While you don’t have to teach the buyer how to use After Effects, you should absolutely discuss any basic changes every buyer must make, and the process to make such changes..

As you may be aware we recently launched our brand new marketplace PhotoDune in a public beta. To celebrate the public debut of PhotoDune we’re giving away $500 of marketplace credit to one lucky winner who shares an interesting, awesome or just downright funny PhotoDune photo with their followers on Twitter!

Creating The Surreal Photo Manipulation “Solstice”

Today we will be creating a surreal and dream-like photo manipulation from various stocks, brushes, and textures. We will be using Adjustment Layers to modify and blend our images non-destructively into a cohesive scene. We will also cover some pretty advanced masking techniques as well as exploring some color and light effects to bring it all together. If you are ready to begin then fire up Photoshop and let’s go!

Before submitting your first template to CodeCanyon, consider the following factors, which frequently contribute to rejected submissions. Please note that this list should only be used only as a guideline.

From today onwards, our focus is changing. Instead of covering everything to do with Flash, Unity and Silverlight, we’ll be covering the design and development of browser-based apps and games in general. This means no more tutorials on full-Flash websites or AIR, and lots of new content on game design, UI, and HTML5. Read on to find out what we’ve got in store!

Resources Used In This Tutorial

Hello there. My name is Danaos Christopoulos and I thought I would make a free After Effects Templates. I think the outcome is really cool. It’s about a logo revealing in slow motion.Here are some main features:

Wptuts+ is a site dedicated to teaching people how to use WordPress, develop widgets, plugins and themes, successfully scale sites, find interesting WordPress resources, and build a freelance business around the platform. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”, and it’s by far and away the most successful blogging platform online.

Designing the Dark Photo Manipulation ‘The Forgotten’

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a dark and conceptual photo manipulation. You will learn not only different techniques of manipulating, retouching, using brushes and filters but why they are used. I hope they will be useful for you and you can make beautiful pieces with your own creativity.

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Based in Brunswick Ohio, BrainHost (http://www.brainhost.com) is a mid-size web hosting company running on (slightly) less than hundred employees. Its current shared hosting plan is priced at a very affordable level – $4.95/mo for 48 months plan (and, $6.95/mo for 24 months plan) where customers will get free site migration, unlimited disk storage, bandwidth, addon domain, as well e-mail accounts.

For those who are trying to learn more about BrainHost, well… you have come to the right place. We’ve got Ryan Niddle, Brain Host’s Director of Business Development, onboard and he will be answering some questions about his company in this interview.

As a new author on the Envato marketplaces, the process of becoming acquainted with the available tools and resources can be a bit daunting. That’s why we’ve compiled the definitive guide for all things authors!

This post is taken from the Envato Marketplace Wiki. There is plenty of useful information there for authors and buyers. It’s worth exploring!

I have been reading quite a lot these days and I wanted to share some of the good ones in this post. Listed below are some hand-picked articles/blogposts WHSR readers might be interested in. Some of these are sort of old while some are freshly published – nevermind, the important part is that each of these articles comes with information as valuable as gold. I am seeing a very busy days ahead for myself thus I doubt that there will be any updates at WHSR this week.

So in case you are in the mood of reading… have fun clicking these links.

NOTE: This post was originally posted on August 1st 2011. However, it still has some great techniques that many of our readers may not have seen before. This tutorial has helped a lot of people since it was first pubilshed, so we hope that whether this is your first time reading it, or you’re using it as a refresher, it’s helpful for you.

Create A Unique Steampunk Photo Manipulation In Photoshop

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a composite image using various elements that will come together to make a unique Steampunk design. We will be using the Pen Tool, Layer Masks and Adjustment Layers, and doing quite a bit of Photo Manipulating throughout the tutorial. We have a lot to cover today so let’s get caffeinated and begin!